From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
“Trailer” is the preferred nomenclature in this project. Also add a
definite article where I think it makes sense.
As we can see the rest of the document already prefers this term. This
just gets rid of the last stragglers.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Notes (series):
Commit message:
“ “Trailer” is the preferred nomenclature in this project.
Must surely be true since git-interpret-trailers(1) does not even
contain the string “tag”.
I did a grep in this directory:
git grep tags ':(exclude)RelNotes'
It didn’t look like there were any other mentions of “tags” in this
sense. Of course it was difficult to look through.
+CC: Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx> based on
e.g. ac9fff2bf1c (SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers,
2023-12-28)
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index d8a8caa7916..db17bc7fe2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -412,13 +412,13 @@ Also notice that a real name is used in the `Signed-off-by` trailer. Please
don't hide your real name.
[[commit-trailers]]
-If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
+If you like, you can put extra trailers at the end:
. `Reported-by:` is used to credit someone who found the bug that
the patch attempts to fix.
. `Acked-by:` says that the person who is more familiar with the area
the patch attempts to modify liked the patch.
-. `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the
+. `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other trailers, can only be offered by the
reviewers themselves when they are completely satisfied with the
patch after a detailed analysis.
. `Tested-by:` is used to indicate that the person applied the patch
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
highlighted above.
-Only capitalize the very first letter of tags, i.e. favor
+Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor
"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
[[git-tools]]
base-commit: 34b6ce9b30747131b6e781ff718a45328aa887d0
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2.46.1.641.g54e7913fcb6
